Dartmouth Softball Splits Ivy Opener with Penn

Saturday, March 28

Philadelphia, Pa.

12:30 p.m.

Dartmouth College

Penn

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Dartmouth Softball Splits Ivy Opener with Penn

3/28/2009 12:00:00 AM | Softball

By: Dartmouth

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - The Dartmouth softball team took an 8-7 victory in Game One before Penn bounced back with an 8-0 shutout in the nightcap. The Big Green had all members of the team have either a hit or a score in the opener as Penn needed to use three pitchers to stop Dartmouth's offensive onslaught.

In Game One the Big Green (8-11, 1-1 Ivy) carried a five-run lead going into the bottom of the fifth where the home team tacked on seven runs to take a 7-5 lead. Dartmouth bounced back with three runs in the top of the next inning and then held the Quakers (5-15-1, 1-1) scoreless for the rest of the contest.

A two-out single to left field by Nikki Yee (Martinez, Calif.) started the top of the sixth as a walk to Alyssa Parker (Spring Valley, Calif.) put runners at first and second. Rookie Molly Khalil (Seal Beach, Calif.) doubled to left center to plate both Yee and Parker. Another Big Green double, this time by Ashley Gleason (Costa Mesa, Calif.) allowed Khalil to come around.

Penn got one hit in the bottom of the frame but the runner would stay stranded. In the seventh three up-three down was all the Quakers could muster as the victory gave Dartmouth a three-game win streak.

For the contest Khalil, Gleason and Kat HIcks (Templeton, Calif.) all had two hits as Khalil knocked in three. In the circle Devin Lindsay (Whittier, Calif.) began the game and went 4.1 innings. Hillary Barker (Duvall, Wash.) came on in relief and closed out the game. Both pitchers struck out two apiece.

In the nightcap Penn's Alisha Prystowsky homered in the fourth driving in three runs, while pitcher Emily Denstedt allowed just one hit in the five innings played.

Barker started the game for the Big Green going three innings as Hicks came on in relief. Dartmouth had just two baserunners in the game as only one Big Green player made it past first. Leigha Clarkson (Perris, Calif.) had the lone hit for the Big Green.

Dartmouth will have a midweek game at UMass on Wednesday before opening up at home next weekend with two Ivy doubleheaders against Princeton on Friday and Cornell on Saturday.